Syncing Palm device via USB Cable

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 02:09 -0500, pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
> With the help of another person, we were able to deduce that the problem 
> was because of Fedora, which by default, does not give access to the USB 
> ports to users.  There is no group to add to fix this problem and it 
> took changing the global security permissions to allow everyone full 
> access to the ports to get it to work.  This really should be addressed 
> on future versions of Fedora so I don't have to re-fix this problem 
> every time the system updates the security.  How do I recommend it?

Which ports are you talking about? If you mean /dev/ttyUSB0 etc., these
only come into existence when a USB device is connected. They are
configured by the udev subsystem. AFAIK, if you use libusb as I
suggested, you don't need to worry about this.

poc